QOTD February 16 2009
Monday, February 16th, 2009- N. Sri Ram: “There is no wisdom without love.”
Steve Jobs: “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”
Mason Cooley: “Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”
Michel de Montaigne: “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”
Storm Jameson: “Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”
Vernon Sanders Law: “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: “I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you’re supposed to meet.”
Buddha: “If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.”
Bob Dylan: “He not busy being born is busy dying.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The world belongs to the energetic.”
Og Mandino: “Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
Albert Einstein: “We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
Diane Ackerman: “Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.”
Rebecca Beard: “The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.”
Jean Houston: “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”
Henry David Thoreau: “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Aristotle: “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
Stella Terrill Mann: “Desire, ask, believe, receive.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
Tennessee Williams: “Make voyages! – Attempt them! – there’s nothing else…”